The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1887-10-21
NO. 954.
CLEVELAND'S FOUNDER.
THE STATUE TO BE ERECTED TO
MOSES CLEVELAND.

The New England Barrister Who Founded
the City Nearly 100 Years Ago, and
Named 1t After Himself-His Name to
BE Perpetuated In Becoming Manner.
Ben Franklin has the credit of having
suggested the site for the city of Cleve-
land. In an article that he wrote for
Philadelphia newspaper just before the
French and Indian war he declared that
fort should be built at the mouth of the
Cuyahoga river, known then as the Tioga
river, where post should be formed and
a town erected for the trade of the lakes u,
Later Noses Gleave}and, Connecticut
lawyer, went to Cleveland, founded q city
and called it after himself. That was
ninety-one years ago, and next month
Cleveland people will put up a bronze
statue to further perpetuate the rame and
fame of the New England barrister who
laid out town for them to live in.
The statue will be seven and half feet
high, and will rest on O polished granite
base seven feet long, six feet in diameter
and cylindrical in form. The statue will
be an enlarged likeness of the original.
In one hand there will be sJacob staff"
while the other will grasp surveyors
level. By the accompanying picture it
will be observed that Gen. cleveland was
fine appearing man. When he took up
his residence in the west to erect q city
he was in the very prime of life. In his
native state he was quite figure, and in
the town OF Canterbury, where he prac-
ticed law, he was one of the leading men
at the bar.
The legislature of Connecticut in the
1QS 0ufhnri1o1 ha I, of
acres of land in the Western Reserve.
The Western Reserve, SO called,i was
owned by the state, and comprised a good
part of what is now the northern half of
Ohio. The price of the land was to be no
less than 33 1-3 cents per acre. Gen.
Cleaveland and others at once organized
the Connecticut Land company and pur-
chased the entire tract. Cleveland was
made director of and the general agent
for the company, and besides superin-
intended all the surveys east of the Cuya-
hoga river In the early spring of the
year 1896 Cleaveland, at the head of g half
hundred surveyors, wood choppers,
cooks, doctors and the like started west.
They reached the mouth of the Cuyahoga
some time in July, and Cleaveland pro-
ceeded at once to lay out city A log
cabin was built and Job P. Stiles and his
wife occupied it. They were the first
white family to settle in Cleveland.
Twelve streets were surveyed, and land
was offered, for sale at the following
prices:
Town lots containing two acres each,
$50; ten acre lots at So per acre; twenty
acre lots at 80 per acre; one hundred acre
lots at $3.50 per
acre. Many of the Lea
town lots that VI
sold at $50 then ~
would bring NY
$500, 600 now. t4 mi A
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ship east Of Cleye- Mgk&HEssa
land for 81 per kA3M
acre and called it W~FAl
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Greek mathema- n @WNA$ AA
tician. A road MMMA&A.Al
was made from WMMN
the settlement on MNM &c.
the river to the EHM FL
township, and -
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known as Euclid WHWI
avenue, and no W#AHS
one but rich men MMW
can afford to live Esss-a.s.4essSTa Ess..saesassIT
in it. One of the - - lgY
original two acre